
Over 1,600 attendees from 33 countries are gathering in downtown Oakland to demonstrate the successes, the strength, and the spirit of the new wave of psychedelic science and medicine. By Brad Burge | Communications Director, MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 starts tomorrow. It is a genuinely historic moment. At Psychedelic Science 2013, over 100 of the [...]
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By Sunil Aggarwal | Published by Americans for Safe Access I am honored and delighted to be able to publish here a new comprehensive piece written by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, entitled “Cannabinopathic Medicine”. Dr. Grinspoon started writing this piece in 2012, when I was privileged to read [...]
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Published in Tenth Amendment Center The Iowa Senate will consider a bill legalizing medical marijuana during the 2013 legislative session. Democratic Senators Joe Bolkcom, William Dotzler, Thomas Courtney and Jack Hatch filed (SF79) on Jan. 29. The complex bill would set up a framework legalizing and regulating the medical use of cannabis for pain management. [...]
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Hardly the harmful intoxicant that many once thought it was, cannabis is a nourishing plant that actually improves and prolongs life. The following is an excerpt from MARIJUANA: GATEWAY TO HEALTH—How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. By Clint Werner | July 25, 2012 For thousands of years cannabis has been used as [...]
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In our third segment of the International Association of Cannabinoid Medicine’s 2011 Cannabinoid Conference in Europe, Naturopathic Doctor Michelle Sexton discusses the Endogenous Cannabinoid System from the perspective of pain management, inflammation, and toxicity, and how dis-ease may be modified by the use of Phytocannabinoids. By Dr. Michelle Sexton | September 26, 2011 IACM Program: [...]
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Meanwhile, the DEA declares cannabis has no medical value. By David Downs | Published in East Bay Express Public health researchers say the federal government is slowing the search for cures to breast, colon, prostate, and brain cancer, as well as Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and HIV because the research involves pot. That’s the takeaway from [...]
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By Letitia Pepper | July 20, 2011 The federal government continues to persecute people for using “medical marijuana,” claiming that “marijuana” has no medical value. This is one of the biggest lies ever sold to the American public via the use of billions of dollars to spreading lies and rumors about an herb. The proper [...]
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By Gillian Flaccus | AP Joe Schwartz is a 90-year-old great-grandfather of three who enjoys a few puffs of pot each night before he crawls into bed in the Southern California retirement community he calls home. The World War II veteran and stroke sufferer smokes the drug to alleviate debilitating nausea and is one of [...]

Join Lanny Swerdlow at The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation Medical Clinic for a free seminar on the anti-aging and health benefits of cannabis. Presented once a month on the first Friday of every month. 8 p.m. THCF Medical Clinic, 647 Main St., Riverside 92501. For more information call: 951-782-9898. Lanny Swerdlow, registered nurse and founder of [...]

GRAND, a website dedicated to today’s GRANDparents, and their GRANDkids, asked their readers to chime on on their thoughts about marijuana prohibition. Overwhelmingly, their body of evidence being grand experience, they voiced their opinions positively towards legalizing pot. According to their website, when asked the following: Is it time to legalize marijuana? GRAND Readers responded: [...]
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